Overview
- Phases one through three have seen booth-level officers distribute semi-filled enumeration forms to about 87 per cent of Bihar’s 79 million electors, yielding over 3.8 million returned forms.
- The SIR drive involves roughly 78,000 booth-level officers, 154,000 booth-level agents and around 400,000 volunteers to facilitate submissions and assist vulnerable groups.
- Voters absent from the 2003 rolls must submit one of 11 specified documents—excluding Aadhaar and MNREGA cards—between June 25 and July 25 to prove citizenship.
- The Association for Democratic Reforms and social activist Yogendra Yadav have filed separate Supreme Court petitions challenging the SIR order as arbitrary and disenfranchising.
- CPI(ML) Liberation’s Dipankar Bhattacharya has called for mass protests starting July 9, and RJD leader Rabri Devi has urged voters to refuse document checks to block the revision.